Ms. Whitaker's Return to Sender Student Research Project

The Pleiades

"JUNE 1, 2004: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped settle a mystery that has puzzled scientists concerning the exact distance to the famous nearby star cluster known as the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. The Pleiades cluster, named by the ancient Greeks, is easily seen as a small grouping of stars lying near the shoulder of Taurus, the Bull, in the winter sky." Caption taken from image at Hubblesite.org.